Thursday, May 7, 2009

Film Crew # 2: Men With Diapers


My second Film Crew movie, The Giant of Marathon, wasn't quite as disturbing as seeing Blanche from the Golden Girls doing a prolonged striptease. This one did contain more men in loin cloths than the T.O. Church Street Gay Pride Parade and the interesting historical lesson that the Greeks apparently defeated the entire Persian fleet by swimming underneath the invaders' ships and sinking them with sharp spears. It was also kinda interesting to read about the production of the four Film Crew movies on this cool website I discovered ("Wikipedia" or something, it could be big someday):


The episodes were produced in 2005 in association with Rhino Entertainment, who were to distribute the episodes on DVD. However, Rhino was approached by Jim Mallon of Best Brains, who threatened to pull future releases of MST3K from Rhino's distribution unless they passed on the series (Mallon claiming that it was "too similar to MST3K" and that Rhino had to choose either MST3K or Film Crew).[citation needed] Rhino then ended their relationship with The Film Crew. It wasn't until 2007 that arrangement were made with Shout! Factory to release the material (requiring some "looping" of lines from the original scripts - specifically, "Bob Honcho" was originally named "Bob Rhino", and this had to be changed due to Rhino no longer being the distributor).

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